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A flora of the state of New-York: comprising full descriptions of all the indigenous and naturalized plants hitherto discovered in the state with remarks on their economical and medicinal properties. 2 Bände, Carroll and Cook, printers to the Assembly, Albany 1843 (online).

Catalogue of plants collected by Mr. Charles Geyer under the direction of Mr. I. N. Nicollet during the exploration of the region between the Mississippi alnd Missouri Rivers. In: Report intended to illustrate a map of the hydrographical basin of the upper Mississippi river, made by I. N. Nicollet. Blair and Rives, Printers, Washington 1843, S. 143–165 (online).

Catalogue of Plants collected by Lieutenant Frémont in his expedition to the Rocky Mountains. In: Report of the exploring expedition to the Rocky Mountains in the year 1842, and to Oregon and North California in the years 1843–’44, by Brevet Captain J. C. Frémont. Gales and Seaton, Printers, Washington 1845, S. 81–98 (online).

Note concerning the plants collected in the second expedition of Captain Fremont. In: Report of the exploring expedition to the Rocky Mountains in the year 1842, and to Oregon and North California in the years 1843-'44, by Brevet Captain J. C. Frémont. Gales and Seaton, Printers, Washington 1845, S. 311–319 (online).

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Botany. Description of the plants collected during the Expedition. In: Exploration of the Red River of Louisiana, in the year 1852, by Randolph B. Marcy. Beverly Tucker, Senate Printer, Washington 1854 S. 267–289 (online)

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Notice of the Plants collected by Prof. D. B. Douglas, of West Point, in the expedition under Governour Cass, during the summer of 1820, around the great Lakes and the upper waters of the Mississippi. In: American Journal of Science and Arts. Band 4, 1822, S. 56–69 (online).

Description and Analysis of a new Ore of Zinc. In: American Journal of Science and Arts. Band 5, 1822, S. 235–238 (online)

Description of a new Species of Usnea, from New South Shetland. In: American Journal of Science and Arts. Band 6, 1823, S. 104–106 (online).

Description of some new or rare Plants from the Rocky Mountains, collected in July, 1820 by Dr. Edwin James. In: Annals of the Lyceum of Natural History of New York. Band 1, 1824, S. 30–36 (online).

Notice of a locality of Yenite in the United States. In: Annals of the Lyceum of Natural History of New York. Band 1, 1824, S. 51 (online)

An Account of the Columbite of Haddam, (Connecticut,) with Notices of several other North American Minerals. In: Annals of the Lyceum of Natural History of New York. Band 1, 1824, S. 89–93 (online).

Descriptions of some new Grasses collected by Edwin James, in the expedition of Major Long to the Rocky Mountains, in 1819–1820. In: Annals of the Lyceum of Natural History of New York. Band 1, 1824, S. 148–156 (online).

Monograph of the North American species of Carex. In: Annals of the Lyceum of Natural History of New York. Band 1, Teil 2, 1825, S. 283–373 (online). - mit Lewis David von Schweinitz.

Some Account of a Collection of Plants made during a journey to and from the Rocky Mountains in the summer of 1820, by Edwin P. James, M. D. Assistant Surgeon, U.S. Army. In: Annals of the Lyceum of Natural History of New York. Band 2, 1827, S. 161–244 (online).

Monograph of the North American Cyperaceae. In: Annals of the Lyceum of Natural History of New York. Band 3, 1836, S. 239–443 (online).

Experiments on the Condensation of Carbonic, Sulphurous, and Chloro-cromic Acid Gases. In: American Journal of Science and Arts. Band 35, 1839 S. 374–375 (online).

Discovery of the Vauquelinite, a rare ore of Chromium, in the United States. In: Annals of the Lyceum of Natural History of New York. Band 4, 1848, S. 76–79 (online).

An Account of several new Genera and Species of North American Plants. In: Annals of the Lyceum of Natural History of New York. Band 4, 1848, S. 80–94 (online).

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